Re: MAKE_JOBS_ARG

[Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>]

Edgar Fuß <ef%math.uni-bonn.de@localhost> writes:

>> I'd like to introduce a better mechanism, currently named MAKE_JOBS_ARG,
>> where packages can set this to "no" which prunes the default "-jN" but they
>> are still marked as supporting parallel builds.
> Would it make sense to have a var that defaults to "-j$MAKE_JOBS" (or whatever 
> make magic would be needed), that can be unset or set to whatever the package 
> needs?

That assumes that all packages have the concept of an argument that is
passed to the main build operation.   It's messier than that, and is
handled in various ways.  

jperkin's proposal is the smaller step of just decoupling
MAKE_JOBS_SAFE, which will become just about the semantics of parallel,
and the old behavior where asking for parallel led to a -jN argument.